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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Synthetic Instruction
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Phonemic/ decodable words
2. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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3. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Breve
Battery
Accuracy
4. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Funding
IDEA
Chall's Stage 4
Phonics
5. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Linguistic Method
Vr
Stanine Scores
NICHD
6. Final stable syllable
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7. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Towre
Derived Score
Phoneme
Grapheme
8. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Six basic types of syllables
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Open Syllable
Ability
9. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Samuel T. Orton
Combination
Norm-Referenced Test
10. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Texas Education Code 38.003
Standard Scores
Chall's Stage 0
Orthography
11. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Morpheme
Profile
Dyslexia
12. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Reading Comprehension Support
IDEA
Joe Torgesen
Sight Words
13. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Synthetic Instruction
Phonemic/ decodable words
Phonics approach
The Norman Conquest
14. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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15. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Vowel
Accommodation
Breve
Reliability
16. Closed syllable
Chall's Stage 4
Chall's Stage 3
VC
Three Layers of Language
17. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
V-e
Comprehension
Modification
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
18. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
Digraph
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
SBOE
19. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Digraph
Sound Symbol Association
Joe Torgesen
Composite Score
20. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Consonant Digraph
Percentile
Greek layer of language
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
21. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Trigraph
Consonant
Standard score
Linguistic Method
22. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Receptive language
Middle English
[-'le
Comprehension
23. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
Reading Comprehension Support
Consonant
Towre
24. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
RTI
Chall's Stage 0
Universal Screening
Standard deviation
25. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Derivative
Percentile/ percentile rank
Grade equivalents
ESL
26. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Keith Stanovich
MSLE
Grade equivalents
Kinesthetic
27. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Middle English
Affix
Towre
Phonics
28. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Analytic
Criterion referenced tests
Composite Score
29. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
Vowel
Attention
VC
30. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Multisensory
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Linguistic Method
31. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
V >
Composite Score
Accuracy
Norm-referenced tests
32. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
V >
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Simultaneous teaching
Morpheme
33. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Chall's Stage 4
Towre
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Reading Comprehension Support
34. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Closed Syllable
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Percentile/ percentile rank
MSLE
35. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Sound Symbol Association
Attention
Standardized test
Chall's Stage 5
36. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Criterion referenced tests
Suffix
Cognition
Visual Processing
37. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Expressive language
Derivative
Raw score
Texas Education Code 28.06
38. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Anna Gillingham
Stanine Scores
Closed Syllable
Prefix
39. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
V-e
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Synthetic Instruction
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
40. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Curriculum referenced tests
Accent
Reliability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
41. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
V-e
Sight Words
ADHD
Ability
42. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Receptive language
CTOPP
Multisensory
43. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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44. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Oral Language
Standard score
Accommodation
RTI
45. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Dyslexia
Chall's Stage 2
V-e
46. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Derivative
Greek layer of language
Criterion referenced tests
Phonics approach
47. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Top-down Reading Approach
Modern English
V-e
Towre
48. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
Visual Processing
[-'le
Dyslexia
49. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Stanine Scores
Profile
Dyslexia
Old English
50. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Visual Processing
MSL
Six basic types of syllables
Curriculum referenced tests
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